Re: I need help: my friend has gone emo

Hey guys...

I consider myself something of an expert at my old age...lol

I take a lot of my own personal style and influences from punk, goth, and emo among other genres. Emo and goth don't make you "bad" o r "evil" or "messed up" its just a personal style that is used as expression. As it was for "Rock n roll" in the 50's, "Folk" in the 60's, "disco" and "Rock" in the 70's, "punk" and "metal" in the 80's, and "Grunge" and "alt-rock" in the 90's, it was a way for the younger generation to rebel against the "screwed up" society that just didnt understand them...and to do it under a banner of brelonging and Brotherhood.

We all go through it in our lives. Nowadays its the resurgence of Goth, and the Emo movement that calls out for attention....unfortunately the younger one's are ill equipped to deal with all the "mess" left by our predessesors, and they're equally if not moreso, ill equipped to understand the source of our youth's anger.

It's up to those of us who do understand to extend ourselves as anchors and beacons to guide our tortured youth to safety in these increasingly harsh times.

Re: I need help: my friend has gone emo

I know you'd like to close this...but I thought I'd drop some knowledge about the "Emo" culture

It isn't "cutting yourself" its more a movement, best defined by Wikkipedia as:

"Emo (pronounced /&#712;i&#720;mo&#650;/) is a style of rock music which describes several independent variations of music with common stylistic roots. As such, use of the term has been the subject of much debate. In the mid-1980s, the term emo described a subgenre of hardcore punk which originated in the Washington, D.C. music scene. In later years, the term emocore, short for "emotional hardcore", was also used to describe the emotional performances of bands in the Washington, D.C. scene and some of the offshoot regional scenes such as Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Beefeater, Gray Matter, Fire Party, and later, Moss Icon. (In more recent years, the term "emotive hardcore" entered the lexicon to describe the period.)

Starting in the mid-1990s, the term emo began to refer to the indie scene that followed the influences of Fugazi, which itself was an offshoot of the first wave of emo. Bands including Sunny Day Real Estate and Texas Is the Reason had a more indie rock style of emo, more melodic and less chaotic. The so-called "indie emo" scene survived until the late 1990s, as many of the bands either disbanded or shifted to mainstream styles. As the remaining indie emo bands entered the mainstream, newer bands began to emulate the mainstream style. As a result, the term "emo" became a vaguely defined identifier rather than a specific genre of music."